Almoravids in a sentence

Additionally, all Almohad leaders – both the religiously learned and the laymen – were hostile toward the Malikite school favored by the Almoravids.

Al-Bakri reports that, while in combat, the Almoravids did not pursue those who fled in front of them.

Although practical for the desert dust, the Almoravids insisted on wearing the veil everywhere, as a badge of "foreignness" in urban settings, partly as a way of emphasizing their puritan credentials.

Although Rodrigo remained undefeated in Valencia, his only son, and heir, Diego Rodríguez died fighting against the Almoravids in the service of Alfonso in 1097.

Although the Almoravids had once ruled from Mauritania (south of Morocco) to al-Andalus (southern Spain), Almoravid rule had never reached to Infriqiya.

Conquests navbox Northern Africa From the year 1053, the Almoravids began to spread their religious way to the Berber areas of the Sahara, and to the regions south of the desert.

El Cid's son Diego Rodríguez was killed while fighting against the invading Muslim Almoravids from North Africa at the Battle of Consuegra in 1097.

From the great Berber dynasties of the Almoravids and Almohads to the militants seeking an Islamic state in the 1990s, the call to return to true Islamic values and practices has had social resonance and political power.

He had foreseen probability that Almoravids may overthrow him, nevertheless he choose to ally with them.

He immediately had attacked the ruling Almoravids and had wrestled Morocco away from them by 1147, suppressing subsequent revolts there.

His father, Abu Al-Qasim Ahmad, held the same position until the Almoravids were replaced by the Almohads in 1146.

In 1086, an expeditionary army of North African Almoravids inflicted a severe defeat to Castile, compelling Alfonso to overcome the resentments he harbored against El Cid.

In 1122 in Belchite, he founded a confraternity of knights to fight against the Almoravids.

In the early 1050s, the Lamtuna, under the joint leadership of Yahya ibn Umar and Abdallah ibn Yasin — soon calling themselves the al-Murabitin (Almoravids) — set out on a campaign to bring their neighbors over to their cause.

It is uncertain exactly when or why the Almoravids acquired that appellation.

It was taken by the Moorish Almoravids in 1111.

The Almoravids (1056-1147) first began far south of Morocco, among the Lamtuna Sanhaja.

The Almoravids veiled themselves below the eyes with a tagelmust a custom they adapted from southern Sanhaja Berbers.

The Almoravids were once held responsible for bringing down the Ghana Empire in 1076, but this view is no longer credited.

The Almoravids, with the help of Toucouleur allies, used military force for conversion.